Water-motor.



No. 642,067. Patented lan. 3U, |900.

M. H. BAsH s. .1. c. MARTIN.

WATER MOTOR.

(Application led Mar. 17, 1899.)

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(No Model.)

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WATER MUTUI?.

(Application led Har. 17, 1899.) (No Model.) A2 Sheets-Sheet 2 lTnn STnTns PATENT GFFICE.

MICHAEL Il. BASH AND JOI-IN C. MARTIN, OF CONEMAUGI-I, PENNSYLVANIA,

WATER-MOTOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 642,067, dated January 30, 1900.

Application iiled March 17, 1899- Serial No. 709,476. (No model.)

To @ZZ 107mm it may concern:

Be it known that We, MICHAEL II. BASH and JOHN C. MARTIN, citizens of the United States, residing at Conemaugh, in the county of Cambria and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Water-Motor, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to Water-motors, and has for its object to provide a simple, compact, and efficient device of this class adapted to be driven by the force of Water impelled against the blades or wings of the wheel, as from the outlet of any ordinary water-supply system,tl1e device being particularly designed as a means for driving churns, ice-cream freezers,washing-machines,sewingemachines, lathes, and other like machinery.

Further objects and advantages of this invention will appear in the following description, and the novel features thereof will be particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a motor constructed in accordance with our invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view of the same, taken in a plane at right angles to the aXis of the water-Wheel. Fig. 3 is a vertical section taken inthe plane of the axis of the water-wheel- Fig. 4. is a detail sectional view of one of the wheelbearings. y

Similar reference characters indicate corre spending parts in all the figures of the drawings.

Supported u pon a suitable base 1 by means of uprights 2 and braces 3 is a housing or casing et, provided in its bottom with an outlet 5 and having a removable cap or cover 6, which carries an inlet-nozzle 7, said inletnozzle preferably being reduced toward its discharge end and being disposed at an inclination to a vertical plane to project the water at a tangent to the wheel. At opposite sides of the housing or casing are arranged transversely -alined bearing boxes consisting of sleeves 8, preferably located wholly outside of the housing and having their outer ends supported by means of conebraces 9. The wheel 10 comprises a drum 11, side plates 12, which extend beyond the drum to form lateral flanges 13, and blades or wings 14, arranged transversely between the flanges or rims, said blades or wings be;

ing disposed obliquely to radii of the wheel and being adapted to receive the impact of the water projected into the casing through the nozzle. Secured at their inner ends in central openings in the side plates of the Wheel are collars 15, which project laterally from said side plates and are secured at their outer ends by conical braces 16, secured with their bases in contact with said side plates. These collars are interiorly threaded, and connecting the same in the plane of the Wheel is a tie-rod 17, forming the intermediate member of a Wheel-shaft, the extremities of said intermediate member being threaded into the collars and occupying the inner portions of the bores thereof. Terminal shaft members 172L and 17b are threaded at their inner ends in the outer portions of the bores of said collars and are mounted in the sleeves 8 of the bearing-boxes. Thus it will be seen that by unscrewing the terminal shaft members 17n and 17b (the former of which may be provided with a pulley 18 or similar device for communicating motion to machinery to be driven) the Wheel may be removed upwardly from the housing or casing, the cap or cover of the latter having been displaced.

Thus it will be seen that We have provided a simple and compact device of portable construction adapted for use in driving light machinery and particularly adapted for do mestic use when the water necessary to drive the wheel may be obtained from a supply system in which water is maintained under pressure and from which it may be forcibly projected to drive the Wheel by impact rather than by Weight, as in an overshot Wheel of the ordinary construction. Furthermore, when necessary the wheel may be dismounted simply by removing the terminal sections of the shaft, as before explained.

Various changes in the form, proportion, size, and the minor details of construction within the scope of the appended claims may be resorted to Without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention. l

Having described our invention, what we claim ism 1. A water-motor having a housing or casing provided with upper and lower inlet and outlet passages, bearing-boxes arranged in ICO the side Walls of the housing and consisting of bearing-sleeves,tted at their inner ends in Vopenings in said side Walls, and conical braces and supporting the outer ends of said collars, and a shaft having an intermediate member transversely spanning the Wheel and terminally threaded in the inner ends of said collars, and terminal shaft members fitted in said bearings of the housing and threaded at their inner ends in the outer ends of said collars, substantially as specified.

In testimony that We claim the foregoing as our own We have hereto affixed our signatures in the presence of two Witnesses.

MICHAEL H. BASH. JOHN C. MARTIN.

Vitnesses:

J AMES B. OCoNNoR, WM. WILLIAMS. 

